Fwd: A Question About Amarok

Mark Kretschmann kretschmann at kde.org
Thu Jan 21 17:28:01 CET 2010


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From: umbc <parande1 at umbc.edu>
Date: Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:51 PM
Subject: A Question About Amarok
To: Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org>


Hi Mark Kretschmann,

I am a graduate student in the Department of Information Systems at
the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). I am doing
research in the area of software engineering. I would very much
appreciate if you could answer the following questions of mine:

1. I was wondering if Amarok has gone under any major
restructuring/redesign initiative in its history.
Restructuring/redesign initiative can be defined as a concerted effort
during a time period in which major architectural or design changes
were applied to the code base with little or no functional
enhancement.

2. If the project has gone under such an initiative, then would it be
possible for you to give the dates or revision/release numbers that
are "right before" and "right after" this structuring effort? I would
like to checkout the source code from the repository to compare
structural measurements that belong to "before" and "after" snapshots.
Note that the dates and revision/release numbers should be right
before and right after the initiative because I would like to be able
to isolate and observe the effects of this effort.

Your response will be very helpful in our research. Thank you very
much for your time in advance. I look forward to hearing from you
soon.

P.S. This research is solely performed for academic purposes.

Regards,

Mohammed Aziz


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